Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
Grypeswaldiae: Ant. Ferdin. Roese, 1792. Second edition (first ed., 1738). Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (February 22, 1705... Read More about Petri Artedi sueci Genera piscium. In quibus systema totum ichthyologiae proponitur cum...
Price: $1,000
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the..... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...
Price: $1,500
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Publishers, [1923]. First American edition from English sheets. Atomic and Electron Theories. The eminent German physicist was especially noted for his work on the atomic structure, development of quantum mechanics and his studies in relativity. He was winner of the Nobel Prize in..... Read More about The Constitution of Matter. Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. Translated from the Second...
Price: $75
Boston: Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation, November 8, 1843. Stock certificate for thirty-six shares of the Boston and Providence Rail Road, signed by Henry Dalton--cancelled November 16, 1843 (in manuscript). Read More about Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation
Price: $150
Boston: JAN, 18, 1843. Signed on last leaf "Dr. E. Parmly Bond St." Read More about The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Vol. XXVII, No. 24
Price: $150
Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, 1955. First edition. Read More about Oiseaux d'Afrique Tropicale (Première Partie
Price: $100
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième). Read More about Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing
Price: $150
Paris - Lyon: B [et] Germer Baillière Librairie - Charles Safy Jeune Librairie-Éditeur, 1844. First edition. Read More about Traité complet de l'Hypochondrie... Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie royale de Médecine
Price: $375
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More about New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical
Price: $750
London: for the Author and sold by Longman, Hurst Rees, et. al, 1812. First edition. Read More about Clavis Calendaria; or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical,...
Price: $300
[Boston: Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818]. First American edition. Read More about Dissertation Third: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Chemical Philosophy from the...
Price: $250
Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Read More about Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts,...
Price: $200
N.d. Original Paul Bransom Drawing. A strong and attractive portrait. Paul Bransom (1885-1979), a native of Washington, D.C., received early training in mechanical drawing which led him to analyze and record the individual characteristics of each of the animals he drew. He had a long and distinguished career as an..... Read More about Vandergo Monkey
Price: $750
c. 1923. STONE & WEBSTER CO. IN BRAZIL. A collection of photos of mostly local scenes, as well as construction projects and employees of Stone & Webster Co., and subsidiary, and Brightman & Co., Inc. Photos include William T. McCaskey and Mayor of Codo on mule; handcars transporting passengers and..... Read More about Photograpas: photograph album of local scenes and construction projects in various towns, in Brazil
Price: $450
Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1832. First edition. Hunter & McAlpine call this a 'popular ... guide to mental hygiene with the stress on social influences." Brigham (1798-1849) was a pyschiatrist who became the first superindendant of the Utica Psychiatric Center in 1842 and in 1844, became one of the founding members..... Read More about Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health
Price: $400
Baltimore: Wiley, Pr., American Building, March 1, 1858. In their Annual Report for 1857, the directors of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (PWBR) noted that lines have been or would shortly be connected for a direct train service from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee to Philadelphia: "This safe and..... Read More about Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. Notice to Colored People. All Colored People...
Price: $35,000
Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie, 1877. First edition. Ashley Montagu's Copy. A fine association copy of a seminal work in the field from the library of the renowned Engish anthropologist, Ashley Montagu. The enormously versatile Broca is perhaps better known now for his studies of aphasia and localized areas of..... Read More about Mémoires d'Anthropologie Zooloqique et Biologique
Price: $350
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1949]. First Edition. This is an update of the author's first book, "Pyrotechnics: the History and the Art of Firework Making." It is still the best book on the History of pyrotechnics. Read More about A History of Fireworks
Price: $250
London: Published by W. Palmer, From the Press of D. Buchanan, 1806. Read More about The General Gazetteer; or a Compendious Geographical Dictionary in Miniature
Price: $200
London: Turner & Hadley for Thomas McLean, 1819. Second edition. Pirages: Brookshaw (ca. 1751-1823) was a successful London cabinet-maker whose painted Neoclassical furniture attracted such titled enthusiasts as the Duke of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, but he suddenly abandoned this livelihood in the 1790s. Art historian Lucy Wood..... Read More about Groups of Flowers (Groups of Fruit, Six Birds) drawn and accurately coloured after nature, with...
Price: $5,500
Feltham, Middlesex): McGraw-Hill, (1968). First American edition. Read More about Eagles, Hawks & Falcons of the World
Price: $150
London: printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 20, Paternoster Row, nd (after 1806). Read More about General View of the Agriculture of the West Riding Yorkshire With Obervations On The Means Of Its...
Price: $300
New York: Peabody & Co., 219 Broadway, 1833. First edition. Parmly Copy (from the family). "This classical poem was a marked literary production, considering the subject, and was extensively quoted at the time and favorably commented on by the best critics and writers in the profession, and had a great..... Read More about Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth, and Their Proper Remedies. By Solyman Brown,...
Price: $800
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First Edition. Read More about The History of the First Locomotives in America
Price: $150
